Appendix A. The Challenges of Game Development
If you are a gamer, it's likely that you have dreamed of creating your own blockbuster game. No doubt all of us have, at one time or another, looked into developing our own game but are daunted by the fact that you have to learn complex programming languages. Granted, while most of these languages are easy to understand for some of us, most of us cannot understand them. We just do not want to take the time to scroll through endless tutorials and coding books to try and learn something. So when you are learning programming, do not forget about debugging!
However, the allure of seeing indie devs make it big may give you the drive and excitement to learn programming and game development.
To give you a better outlook on game development, we are going to discuss the following in this chapter:
Examples of devs who have hit it big
The challenges of development and the difficulty of learning coding languages
How GameSalad makes it all easy
If you have the drive to start your own awesome game, you are going to want to read this. Not as discouragement, but to get a realistic look at the indie development scene.
